Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Feb 2018
Antiemetic treatment in the emergency department: Patient opinions and expectations.
To determine patient expectations of antiemetic treatment in the ED. ⋯ Most patients expected antiemetic treatment to make symptoms at least 'a lot less'. Most also believe treatment should be reserved for moderate or severe nausea, and should take effect by 30 min.
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Emerg Med Australas · Feb 2018
Medical scribes have no impact on the patient experience of an emergency department.
We aimed to evaluate patient perceptions of medical scribes in the ED and to test for scribe impacts on ED Net Promoter Scores, Press Ganey Surveys and other patient-centred topics. ⋯ We found no evidence that scribes reduce patient satisfaction during emergency consultations, nor prompt discomfort that might cause a patient to withhold information.
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Emerg Med Australas · Feb 2018
Lessons learnt from incidents involving the airway and breathing reported from Australasian emergency departments.
To review incident reports relating to problems encountered during the ED management of patients with 'airway or breathing' problems, with the aim of finding and highlighting common themes within these rare events, and making recommendations to further improve patient safety in the areas in which deficiencies have been identified. ⋯ Recommendations for improving preparedness of ED staff and facilities have been made for each of the problem areas identified with respect to clinical practice, equipment, communication and clinical process. Analysis of incidents from the Australasian Emergency Medicine Events Register allows clusters of like-events to be identified and characterised, providing the possibility of getting a better idea of how problems present and progress, with some information about contributing factors, characteristics and context. This will pave the way for earlier and better detection of life-threatening problems and the development and reinforcement of preventive and corrective strategies.